Calyx (1986)
by Prescriptives

Fresh, clean, youthful smell. I don't find this one completely intoxicating, but a nice perfume to wear in the daytime.

One of the nicest and easiest green perfume to wear. Never fails to elicit a happy feeling from me. Luca Turin gave this 5 stars. And I happily agree. Give me a five, Dr Turin!

i go back to calyx every other year or so. i love it, but am not in love with it. i do not find it intoxicating, but i do find that the scent is fresh, and remains so. this is the greenest of green scents. lovely cassis notes, with grass, dahlia, and ozone properties...same lift as issey without the throat scratch. again, clean and green, feminine, but not sexy. perfect for a work environment. i caught this scent on a classmate in 10th grade back in the early 90s, and am impressed by how much it continues to resonate with me.

Calyx opens with a blast of candied tropical fruit that reminds me of nothing so much as a big, fluorescent colored lollipop, and were it not for the scent’s high repute I might have dismissed it right away. The chemical fruit note persists, but softens over time to merge with a very smooth, milky green floral accord with the olfactory texture of a luxury hand cream. (Which given the Prescriptives cosmetic brand, isn’t so surprising.) That many lotions and shampoos are similarly scented does Calyx no favors, and it’s hard for me to shake the impression that I’m wearing a high-end bath product. Sillage and projection are limited from the start, and on me Calyx fades within two hours to a very soft fruit custard skin scent. Calyx ultimately strikes me as a pleasant scent but in the final analysis I don’t think it’s anything special. Menard's L'Eau de Ryokuei does the green floral thing much better (albeit more expensively), and for something a bit weightier and entirely sugar free, there's Estee Lauder's Beyond Paradise.

An aside: I wonder if Calyx has inspired Dawn Spencer Hurwitz’s recent Celadon, which being drier and less conventionally fruity, is an easier fragrance for me to wear.

Green, grassy, but not so fresh, rather sultry, "thick", "waxy" - it possess the same waxiness as Eden Cacharel, smells "80-ties". I dont detect grapefruits. Calyx is single note of Spathiphyllum (something like red apple + wet grass + Juicy Fruits bubble gum).

I passed by this perfume without noticing it for years because I never look for fragrance at the Prescriptives counter. Rather, I am obsessesed with their excellent line of liquid foundation almost guaranteed to match any skin color. There sat Calyx. I finally sprayed it on, and it was wonderful. It rushed through some grassy, green notes and settled into a big white peach and apricot aroma that was delicious. Ordinarily I'm not a fruit scent wearer, but I fell in love with this. Big, round, sweet-tart aromatic fruits in a sparkling, green, mossy base. Excellent.